Slave Patrols Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

The influence of the third party slave patrols is weighed in relation to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, suggesting that their brutal means of racial control shaped the landscape of discrimination and hostility for years to come.

review of Slave Patrols Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, by Hadden, Sally E., Civil War Book Review, (Fall 2001).